This Apple TV show is one of the ten most popular originals in the United States right now
Another Apple TV show has appeared in the Nielsen chart for streaming originals in the US, which is by no means a guarantee given the relatively small size of the streamer. The second season debut of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters just scraped in the Top 10 at position 10, with 467 million minutes viewed for the week of March 2 – March 8. more…

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Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Dock for MacBook review: Fast with special guest stars
Macworld At a glance Pros Thunderbolt 5 19 ports Integrated M.2 slot for an SSD Dedicated function keys Optical audio KonstantCharge for undocked peripherals Cons Premium price 180W power supply lesser than rivals Our Verdict For the premium price you get a lot of connectivity (19 ports!) and a tidy storage M.2 enclosure that you can upgrade as and when you wish, not when and with what Apple demands. The optical audio port, CompactFlash slot and hot keys are nice extras rarely found on docking stations. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Price When Reviewed$449.99 Best Prices Today: Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Dock for MacBook Retailer Price $389.49 View Deal Kensington $449.99 View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Kensington’s EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Dock for MacBook, known to its friends as the SD7100TS, is a dock stacked with 19 ports, a dedicated SSD slot for you to add extra storage, and special Mac hot keys for easy iPhone photo backup and a Focus Mode. It even has “Designed for MacBook” on the box, but this could be because Windows hasn’t quite caught the Thunderbolt 5 wave yet. This is a horizontal docking station with solid good looks in a gunmetal-gray with nicely rounded corners. Dock specs One upstream Thunderbolt 5 port (80Gbps, 140W) Three downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports (80Gbps, 15W) One USB-C port (10Gbps, 30W) One USB-C port (10Gbps, 7.5W) Four USB-A ports (10Gbps, 4.5W) Ethernet (2.5Gb) NVMe M.2 SSD slot (up to8TB) UHS-II SD card reader (312MBps) UHS-II microSD card reader (312MBps) One 3.5mm combo audio In/Out jack (front) One 3.5mm audio In jack (back) One 3.5mm audio Out jack (back) One TOSLINK optical audio (back) 180W power supply Simon Jary Kensington has decided against including a dedicated video port such as HDMI or DisplayPort in favor of the full set of Thunderbolt 5 ports. While that might mean you have to supply your own USB-C to HDMI/DP adapter cable if your monitor doesn’t support a USB-C/Thunderbolt connection, it does offer you more flexibility in choosing what you want each port to do. If a dock has a DisplayPort or HDMI port, for instance, and you want to connect via Thunderbolt, that video port is wasted. Having the maximum three downstream Thunderbolt 5 docks gives you the freedom to decide what to use each port for. Thunderbolt 5 (TB5) is backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 4 and 3, so even if your Mac isn’t yet built for TB5, you can rest assured that it will work with earlier Thunderbolt versions and be ready for your eventual TB5 Mac upgrade. Thunderbolt 5 Macs get 80Gbps data-transfer rates and up to 120Gbps in Bandwidth Boost mode for top-end video demands. One TB5 port is “upstream”, meaning it connects to your Mac. The other three are “downstream” for connecting other devices such as monitors and storage drives. Simon Jary Power One TB5 port is at the front, which might suit you but strikes me as odd and a potential cause of cable-clutter, especially as there is a 30W 10Gbps USB-C port at the front already—nicely placed for charging your iPhone or even connecting a wireless charger. Also at the front is another 10Gbps USB-C port with a weaker 7.5W power rating. The Thunderbolt ports are rated at 15W. The four legacy USB-A ports are not up to much charging at just 4.5W. Indeed, the EQ Pro feels a bit under-powered, with a max 180W power supply. The PD 3.1-rated upstream Thunderbolt 5 port is great, supplying up to 140W: enough to fast-charge even the top-end 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the 30W USB-C is meaty. The other ports probably have all the power your connected devices require but in comparison the CalDigit TS5 Plus has 330W for its two 36W TB5 ports and 36W USB-C, and the Sonnet Echo 13 has a 60W TB5 port. A “KonstantCharge” feature allows devices to be charged even when the dock isn’t connected to a laptop, so you can use it like a desktop charger. In his charging tests my PCWorld colleague Mark Hachman found the 30W charging port delivered 28.6W under load, and the other USB-C port provided about 6W. The downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports delivered 13.6W of power. On the back of the dock is a power button, which we appreciate as many docking stations don’t have them. Although modern devices have sophisticated battery safeguards and battery management, I prefer not to keep my MacBook constantly connected to a power source. Yes, I can pull the cable out but an On/Off button is cleaner and less wearing on the hardware. The power supply is rated at 180W, so is the maximum shared power load the dock can supply. With a possible 240W of port power potential, plus the power needed by the dock and SSD slot, that 18W is not up to the full load. Other docks offer 240W (or even 300W for the CalDigit TS5 Plus), which would have made more sense than an under-powered 180W power supply. It’s likely that 180W will be enough at most times, but a 240W charger would have been a more sensible choice from Kensington. Network speed The dock matches similar Thunderbolt 5 docks with a faster 2.5Gbps Ethernet port. Even if your network is stuck at 1Gb Gigabit Ethernet, it’s backwards compatible so builds in more future-proofing to your setup. Audio From an audio perspective, as well as a single 3.5mm combination mic/headphone jack on the front of the dock, there are separate mic, speaker, and headphone I/O ports, plus an optical connection to pass lossless audio to some high-end audio systems—a boon for those editing video or audio. Simon Jary Hotkeys Another curiosity bonus feature is the set of two hotkeys on the top of the dock; pictured above. These include one for backing up your iPhone photos and videos to your Mac or SSD plus another offering a Focus Mode for Mac, including ‘Do Not Disturb’, or you can customize the buttons for other functions using the Kensington Konnect. Turning on Do Not Disturb is pretty easy anyway via Control Center in the Mac’s top menu bar, but it’s undeniably a little easier with a physical button. Play around in the software to hone these buttons to your own one-touch functionality requirements. Portable storage At the front are two fast UHS-II SD/MicroSD card reader slots, and as a surprise bonus even CF 4.0 (CompactFlash) card slot that will please those professional photographers who use older high-end DSLRs that require it. The EQ Pro is the only modern docking station we’ve seen with one of these. Simon Jary Super store A feature that is becoming more common with docking stations is an integrated PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD enclosure. This is usually found on the bottom of the dock, but the Kensington EQ Pro has it on the top, secured by a screw on one side of the dock itself; see our photo above. You’ll need your own tiny Phillips cross-head screwdriver as Kensington doesn’t include one in the box—other dock makers such as Ugreen and iVanky do include a screwdriver, so this will be missed as you search your office or home for one the right size. Apple doesn’t make MacBook storage cheap—the 14-inch MacBook Pro comes with 1TB as the base level, with 2TB costing an extra $400 and 4TB a whopping $1,000! Once you’ve purchased, you can’t go back to add more. The dock doesn’t come with an NVMe M.2 SSD, unlike the Sonnet Echo 13 Thunderbolt 5 SSD Dock that is sold as 1TB ($479), 2TB ($649) and 4TB ($999) models. Go to Amazon to find a NVMe M.2 SSD from a reliable brand, such as Samsung, WD and SanDisk. 1TB should cost around $150-200, 2TB around $350 and 4TB $600-700. Storage prices are notoriously volatile so you find them more affordable or more expensive when you’re searching for one. Many users will use a dock to add two external displays, but the latest M5 Pro/Max chips will allow three or four via daisy-chaining.Kensington Displays: M5 Pro/Max mean more monitors While Thunderbolt 4 docks continue to be capped at two external displays on the Mac, the latest top-end M5 Pro and M5 Max chips support up to three external displays with the Kensington EQ Pro. The M5 Max can handle four but as there aren’t enough ports to hang so many monitors off you’ll need to daisy-chain the fourth screen from the third. Maximum resolution for a dual-monitor setup is two 6K monitors at 60Hz. A single 8K/60Hz display is possible with M5/M4 Base/Pro/Max plus Pro/Max versions of the M1/M2/M3 chipped Macs. On one end of the EQ Pro are two Kensington security slots plus the screw to take off the dock’s lid to reveal the hidden SSD enclosure.Simon Jary Kensington EQ Pro performance From a performance standpoint, Kensington’s dock was slightly slower than other Thunderbolt 5 docks tested by my colleague Mark: the Sonnet Echo 13 transferred data from our test SSD at about 436MBps, while the Plugable TBT-UDT3 was about the same. Kensington’s drive transferred data at 398MBps, or 9% slower. The EQ Pro boasts more ports, though, remember. We copied multiple gigabytes of data from a folder on my desktop to the dock’s SSD. The dock performed normally, taking about 16 seconds. (Sonnet’s dock is the fastest here, at about 14 seconds.) While streaming, that dropped to 17.3 seconds. Obviously, that difference would enlarge the more data you transferred at a time. Our tests found that that SSD inside Kensington’s dock performed essentially the same as the Razer Thunderbolt Dock Chroma, another Thunderbolt 5 dock with an M.2. SSD slot, when performing a folder copy: 16.8 seconds by itself, and 17.5 seconds while streaming 4K video. Foundry / Mark Hachman Price The Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Docking Station is priced at $449.99. For a dock with this many ports this is comparable with the 15-port $399 CalDigit TS5 or 23-port iVanky FusionDock Max 2, both of which lack the SSD enclosure. The $479 Sonnet Echo 13 has the built-in SSD slot (with SSD included from $479 for 1TB) but fewer ports and the $499 Ugreen 17-in-1 Maxidok has the slot but fewer ports, so the Kensington EQ Pro measures up well when compared to docks with that feature. To get full value from this dock you’ll want to add the SSD card, which will up the cost significantly but also massively enrich your Mac setup with a ton more upgradable storage at hand. Should you buy the Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Docking Station (SD7100TS)? $449 (plus the cost of the SSD if you want to use this dock to its full potential) is a lot of money but for the level of connectivity (19 ports!) and a tidy storage M.2 enclosure it’s more affordable than its closest rivals. The optical audio port, CompactFlash slot and hot keys are nice extras rarely found on docking stations.

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Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Dock for MacBook review: Fast with special guest stars
Macworld At a glance Pros Thunderbolt 5 19 ports Integrated M.2 slot for an SSD Dedicated function keys Optical audio KonstantCharge for undocked peripherals Cons Premium price 180W power supply lesser than rivals Our Verdict For the premium price you get a lot of connectivity (19 ports!) and a tidy storage M.2 enclosure that you can upgrade as and when you wish, not when and with what Apple demands. The optical audio port, CompactFlash slot and hot keys are nice extras rarely found on docking stations. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Price When Reviewed$449.99 Best Prices Today: Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Dock for MacBook Retailer Price $389.49 View Deal Kensington $449.99 View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Kensington’s EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Dock for MacBook, known to its friends as the SD7100TS, is a dock stacked with 19 ports, a dedicated SSD slot for you to add extra storage, and special Mac hot keys for easy iPhone photo backup and a Focus Mode. It even has “Designed for MacBook” on the box, but this could be because Windows hasn’t quite caught the Thunderbolt 5 wave yet. This is a horizontal docking station with solid good looks in a gunmetal-gray with nicely rounded corners. Dock specs One upstream Thunderbolt 5 port (80Gbps, 140W) Three downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports (80Gbps, 15W) One USB-C port (10Gbps, 30W) One USB-C port (10Gbps, 7.5W) Four USB-A ports (10Gbps, 4.5W) Ethernet (2.5Gb) NVMe M.2 SSD slot (up to8TB) UHS-II SD card reader (312MBps) UHS-II microSD card reader (312MBps) One 3.5mm combo audio In/Out jack (front) One 3.5mm audio In jack (back) One 3.5mm audio Out jack (back) One TOSLINK optical audio (back) 180W power supply Simon Jary Kensington has decided against including a dedicated video port such as HDMI or DisplayPort in favor of the full set of Thunderbolt 5 ports. While that might mean you have to supply your own USB-C to HDMI/DP adapter cable if your monitor doesn’t support a USB-C/Thunderbolt connection, it does offer you more flexibility in choosing what you want each port to do. If a dock has a DisplayPort or HDMI port, for instance, and you want to connect via Thunderbolt, that video port is wasted. Having the maximum three downstream Thunderbolt 5 docks gives you the freedom to decide what to use each port for. Thunderbolt 5 (TB5) is backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 4 and 3, so even if your Mac isn’t yet built for TB5, you can rest assured that it will work with earlier Thunderbolt versions and be ready for your eventual TB5 Mac upgrade. Thunderbolt 5 Macs get 80Gbps data-transfer rates and up to 120Gbps in Bandwidth Boost mode for top-end video demands. One TB5 port is “upstream”, meaning it connects to your Mac. The other three are “downstream” for connecting other devices such as monitors and storage drives. Simon Jary Power One TB5 port is at the front, which might suit you but strikes me as odd and a potential cause of cable-clutter, especially as there is a 30W 10Gbps USB-C port at the front already—nicely placed for charging your iPhone or even connecting a wireless charger. Also at the front is another 10Gbps USB-C port with a weaker 7.5W power rating. The Thunderbolt ports are rated at 15W. The four legacy USB-A ports are not up to much charging at just 4.5W. Indeed, the EQ Pro feels a bit under-powered, with a max 180W power supply. The PD 3.1-rated upstream Thunderbolt 5 port is great, supplying up to 140W: enough to fast-charge even the top-end 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the 30W USB-C is meaty. The other ports probably have all the power your connected devices require but in comparison the CalDigit TS5 Plus has 330W for its two 36W TB5 ports and 36W USB-C, and the Sonnet Echo 13 has a 60W TB5 port. A “KonstantCharge” feature allows devices to be charged even when the dock isn’t connected to a laptop, so you can use it like a desktop charger. In his charging tests my PCWorld colleague Mark Hachman found the 30W charging port delivered 28.6W under load, and the other USB-C port provided about 6W. The downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports delivered 13.6W of power. On the back of the dock is a power button, which we appreciate as many docking stations don’t have them. Although modern devices have sophisticated battery safeguards and battery management, I prefer not to keep my MacBook constantly connected to a power source. Yes, I can pull the cable out but an On/Off button is cleaner and less wearing on the hardware. The power supply is rated at 180W, so is the maximum shared power load the dock can supply. With a possible 240W of port power potential, plus the power needed by the dock and SSD slot, that 18W is not up to the full load. Other docks offer 240W (or even 300W for the CalDigit TS5 Plus), which would have made more sense than an under-powered 180W power supply. It’s likely that 180W will be enough at most times, but a 240W charger would have been a more sensible choice from Kensington. Network speed The dock matches similar Thunderbolt 5 docks with a faster 2.5Gbps Ethernet port. Even if your network is stuck at 1Gb Gigabit Ethernet, it’s backwards compatible so builds in more future-proofing to your setup. Audio From an audio perspective, as well as a single 3.5mm combination mic/headphone jack on the front of the dock, there are separate mic, speaker, and headphone I/O ports, plus an optical connection to pass lossless audio to some high-end audio systems—a boon for those editing video or audio. Simon Jary Hotkeys Another curiosity bonus feature is the set of two hotkeys on the top of the dock; pictured above. These include one for backing up your iPhone photos and videos to your Mac or SSD plus another offering a Focus Mode for Mac, including ‘Do Not Disturb’, or you can customize the buttons for other functions using the Kensington Konnect. Turning on Do Not Disturb is pretty easy anyway via Control Center in the Mac’s top menu bar, but it’s undeniably a little easier with a physical button. Play around in the software to hone these buttons to your own one-touch functionality requirements. Portable storage At the front are two fast UHS-II SD/MicroSD card reader slots, and as a surprise bonus even CF 4.0 (CompactFlash) card slot that will please those professional photographers who use older high-end DSLRs that require it. The EQ Pro is the only modern docking station we’ve seen with one of these. Simon Jary Super store A feature that is becoming more common with docking stations is an integrated PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD enclosure. This is usually found on the bottom of the dock, but the Kensington EQ Pro has it on the top, secured by a screw on one side of the dock itself; see our photo above. You’ll need your own tiny Phillips cross-head screwdriver as Kensington doesn’t include one in the box—other dock makers such as Ugreen and iVanky do include a screwdriver, so this will be missed as you search your office or home for one the right size. Apple doesn’t make MacBook storage cheap—the 14-inch MacBook Pro comes with 1TB as the base level, with 2TB costing an extra $400 and 4TB a whopping $1,000! Once you’ve purchased, you can’t go back to add more. The dock doesn’t come with an NVMe M.2 SSD, unlike the Sonnet Echo 13 Thunderbolt 5 SSD Dock that is sold as 1TB ($479), 2TB ($649) and 4TB ($999) models. Go to Amazon to find a NVMe M.2 SSD from a reliable brand, such as Samsung, WD and SanDisk. 1TB should cost around $150-200, 2TB around $350 and 4TB $600-700. Storage prices are notoriously volatile so you find them more affordable or more expensive when you’re searching for one. Many users will use a dock to add two external displays, but the latest M5 Pro/Max chips will allow three or four via daisy-chaining.Kensington Displays: M5 Pro/Max mean more monitors While Thunderbolt 4 docks continue to be capped at two external displays on the Mac, the latest top-end M5 Pro and M5 Max chips support up to three external displays with the Kensington EQ Pro. The M5 Max can handle four but as there aren’t enough ports to hang so many monitors off you’ll need to daisy-chain the fourth screen from the third. Maximum resolution for a dual-monitor setup is two 6K monitors at 60Hz. A single 8K/60Hz display is possible with M5/M4 Base/Pro/Max plus Pro/Max versions of the M1/M2/M3 chipped Macs. On one end of the EQ Pro are two Kensington security slots plus the screw to take off the dock’s lid to reveal the hidden SSD enclosure.Simon Jary Kensington EQ Pro performance From a performance standpoint, Kensington’s dock was slightly slower than other Thunderbolt 5 docks tested by my colleague Mark: the Sonnet Echo 13 transferred data from our test SSD at about 436MBps, while the Plugable TBT-UDT3 was about the same. Kensington’s drive transferred data at 398MBps, or 9% slower. The EQ Pro boasts more ports, though, remember. We copied multiple gigabytes of data from a folder on my desktop to the dock’s SSD. The dock performed normally, taking about 16 seconds. (Sonnet’s dock is the fastest here, at about 14 seconds.) While streaming, that dropped to 17.3 seconds. Obviously, that difference would enlarge the more data you transferred at a time. Our tests found that that SSD inside Kensington’s dock performed essentially the same as the Razer Thunderbolt Dock Chroma, another Thunderbolt 5 dock with an M.2. SSD slot, when performing a folder copy: 16.8 seconds by itself, and 17.5 seconds while streaming 4K video. Foundry / Mark Hachman Price The Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Docking Station is priced at $449.99. For a dock with this many ports this is comparable with the 15-port $399 CalDigit TS5 or 23-port iVanky FusionDock Max 2, both of which lack the SSD enclosure. The $479 Sonnet Echo 13 has the built-in SSD slot (with SSD included from $479 for 1TB) but fewer ports and the $499 Ugreen 17-in-1 Maxidok has the slot but fewer ports, so the Kensington EQ Pro measures up well when compared to docks with that feature. To get full value from this dock you’ll want to add the SSD card, which will up the cost significantly but also massively enrich your Mac setup with a ton more upgradable storage at hand. Should you buy the Kensington EQ Pro Thunderbolt 5 Docking Station (SD7100TS)? $449 (plus the cost of the SSD if you want to use this dock to its full potential) is a lot of money but for the level of connectivity (19 ports!) and a tidy storage M.2 enclosure it’s more affordable than its closest rivals. The optical audio port, CompactFlash slot and hot keys are nice extras rarely found on docking stations.

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14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro 24GB 1TB is $149 Off
The device is powered by the M5 Pro chip, bringing next-gen power and speed to your device for creative tasks, heavy tasks, work, gaming, and more. It also comes with faster SSD storage, and each core features a Neural Accelerator. The device is made for AI with every significant component and Apple silicon made to […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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iOS 27 Brings Siri App and Potential Extensions
iOS 27 is reportedly having a feature for extensions. The revamped Siri is also widely expected to be released in iOS 27. The Siri app could enable users of the Mac, iPhone, and iPad to interact with the AI in voice and text. The extensions feature could let third-party chatbots be connected to Siri, as […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Significant Redesign for iPhone
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Final Apple 50th Anniversary Plans Go Public
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4-pack AirTag Is $39 Off
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iPhone 18 to Feature Smaller Dynamic Island
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Users Sent Critical Security Alerts To Update To New Version of iOS
Apple has started sending notifications to users of the iPad and iPhone who are on older versions of iPadOS and iOS, warning them of web-based attacks that are active. The alert will show as a notification that is labeled ‘Critical Software’. The company is aware of the attacks that are specifically targeting devices with outdated […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Apple Products in Lockdown Mode Are Never Hacked, Apple Claims
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AirPods Pro 3 is $49 Off
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Apple Releases New Immersive Video For Apple Vision Pro
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Apple In Final Stages of 50th Anniversary Celebrations
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Crunchyroll Coming to Apple TV
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RAM shortages are raising console prices, but this Nintendo Switch bundle is only $220
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Forget Dropbox because one cloud storage is offering 10TB for life for $350 on sale
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AI startup suing Apple over alleged arbitrary enforcement of App Store rules
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Apple details plan to sunset Ads Campaign Management API in 2027
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Apple's Q2 results will be reported on April 30
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Apple sets Q2 2026 earnings release for April 30
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Price drop: Learn something new every day with Nibble app (88% off)
Turn 10 minutes a day into real learning with this Nibble app deal. You get bite-size lessons, audio, games and even AI chats with legends. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

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You can buy a custom iPhone that has a fragment of Steve Jobs’ iconic turtleneck
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Developers that won the 2026 WWDC invite lottery are being notified
If you've applied to attend WWDC 2026, now is a great time to check your email, as Apple has started notifying those invited to experience the event in person.Apple has begun emailing those selected to attend WWDC 2026 in person.Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is an annual event held in June at Apple Park in California. This is when the iPhone maker previews new versions of its major operating systems, such as iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.Swift Student Challenge winners, members of the press, and a few lucky developers will get to experience the event in person. Those invited have already taken to social media to express their excitement and gratitude. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Apple researchers unveil LGTM, a potential boost for Apple Vision Pro graphics
A team of Apple researchers has developed a new framework that enables high-resolution 3D scene rendering with far greater efficiency. Here are the details of the new study. more…

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Apple begins notifying WWDC applicants of lottery results
Apple has started notifying developers of their selection status in the WWDC attendance lottery. Apple announced its Worldwide Developers Conference on March 23, giving developers one week to express interest in attending in-person. more…

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iOS 26.4 adds three new ways to customize your iPhone
iOS 26.4 is officially here and brings lots of additional features, including three new ways to customize your iPhone. Here’s what’s new. more…

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iPhone 18 may get little more than a new color while iPhone Fold gets 3D printed hinge
A new leak suggests that the hinge of the iPhone Fold will use "chip-level polymer printing 3D technology" and the iPhone 18 upgrades will be limited to color changes.The iPhone Fold will allegedly feature a 3D-printed hinge.With Apple's first foldable expected to debut in late 2026, we're now seeing more and more claims about its hardware. Following multiple rumors suggesting Liquid Metal would be used for the hinge of the iPhone Fold, another tipster has provided a new tidbit about the component.To be more specific, a translated post from leaker Fixed Focus Digital on Weibo said that Apple is putting considerable effort into its foldable iPhone. This reportedly "involves chip-level high-molecular 3D printing technology, with further developments in the hinge design still to be revealed." Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Apple’s viral ‘Lil’ Finder Guy’ takes center stage in new Mac tips video series
Apple is fully embracing the internet’s latest obsession: the cute, anthropomorphized Lil' Finder Guy, the chubby blue-and-white mascot… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.

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